The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-01-13
hoRIIBLR COLLISION.
Esgtses and Coaches Telesespel, the wreck
Takes Fire and Passengers Burned to Death
Tho Number Of Victims Unkaown. but Isti;
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Esgfues and Cosehes Teleseepel, the Wrecl
Takes Fire and PASSENGERS Burned to Death
| Tho Number Of Victims Unkaown, but Esti
mated At from Seventeen to twenty-five.
! Ono of the most horrible accidents ave,
miles east Of Tifin. Ohio. The accounts say
that the conductor OF a freight train pulled
out Tor Scipio, where he was to side track
Tor an express train. Halt q mile vest hi
Republic, the train came to q standstilI
being unable to move further. just hera
| was made the horrible mistake which
| resulted in the loss OF many lives md
the destruction OF thousands OF dollars
worth of property. Although the conduc.
tor must have known that he was on.
| croaching dangerously near the time of The
express, he did not send out tho si.nn j
until after his train had come to q
standstill and found it impossible to
| move further. Tho engines of the two
trains reared into the air like a pair Of an.
ragged living monsters, and then settled
down upon the track, driven into each other
until the cylinders touched. The force OF
the impact damned the baggage cars into
tn e tender and into theiast train, the ex.
press car into the baggage, and the same
IN the express. In !ess than five minutes
from the moment OF the collision. and be.
fore any organized effort at rescue could be
made, the fire oil the overturned stoves com.
municated to the w odwork, and tho flamea
!eaped high into the air, their roar min.
Cling with the cries OF anguish OF tho i'm.
prlsoned victims, to whom death in tie
most terrible form was horrible presence.
The trainmen and uninjured PASSENGERS
were powerless, and could do nothing to
rescue the sufferers.
The number actually lost may never be
known hoo ~>1.>
two. There were sixty-five passengers on
the train.
A dispatch from Milwaukee saws: Pri
vate kilograms from Bellaire, Ohio an.
nounce that Grant Russell and George
simpson OF this city were on the wrecked
train. As their relatives here can get no
word from them it is believed they persisted
One correspondent gives seventeen az
the number who were killed, and ays that
out OF fifteen passengers in the smoker but
one escaped.
Charles p. Toll of Detroit, who was on
the wrecked train. gives an account OF the
disaster, in which he saws:
NO one IN the sleeper was injured in the
least. Among the passengers in the sleep.
er were Mrs. Fish Of Joliet, ILL.,, Il sister OF
Gen. Logan, and her son Charles neither
OF whom was injured. The shock was so
terrific that the farmers in the neishbor-
uoou CoOK IL TO De an earthquake, and
were soon at the scene OF the wreck. In
the confusion of the wreck a
hot dispute arose among the train
men as to tho responsibility for
the disaster. 1t appeared that the freight
train was running on tho time of the OK.
press: The engineer was heard to remark
that he had left the last 81 ling with only
thirty pounds Of steam, and on the up.
grade east OF Tiffin his engine went back
on him. and the train stalled. No danger
signals were sent out ahead, and the ex-
press, running at full speed down grade
and around a curve, had no warning OF
impending disaster until an instant before
the collision
c. =. Bradley of Washington, D. G., was
ionnd hanging from the window OF the
smoker, but his legs were fast and he could
not be removed. There he remained until
he was burned to death and his charred
remains fell to the ground. He was con.
scious and gave his address to the bystand-
ers.
Joseph Postlethwaite, aged fifty-seven.
and his sons. Spencer, aged eighteen, and
Henry, aged eleven, were sitting in tho
same seat in tho smoker, and their char.
red remains were found in the ruins of the
car.